2005 · comedy · drama · romance
Chinaman
Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz1h 28m2005
Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity.
Our read: Chinaman (2005) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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